நதியோர நாணல்கள் : Nathiyora Nanalkal (Tamil Edition) by Dhumi Thumi துமி மணிஷா ராஜேந்திரன் (22 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Bald Jokes: Over 150 Funny Puns About Hairless Heads! (Funny Gifts for Men) by Roger Stevenson (30 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

A bald head is a blessing without disguise. It's a beacon of beauty that attracts the attention of all, a perfect conversation starter, and let's be honest, it's funny! It's hard to say exactly why, but rather than spend time philosophizing, let's embrace the inevitable truth and have some fun with it! Over 150 hilarious jokes and puns focused on bald heads and receding hairlines to amuse and tease your friends with! ? Over 150 jokes! ? 4" x 6" in size! ? Convenient to take with you! ? Jokes are suitable for all ages! ? Perfect as a gift! ? Take a look inside! Which horror character do bald men most empathize with? The hairless horseman! What noise does a bell make when it's rung by a bald man? Bal-DING! Why are balding men not scared of economic declines? Because they're experts when it comes to a recession!

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Respawn: Lives 1-5 (Respawn LitRPG series Book 1) by Arthur Stone (Amazon Digital Services) (880 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

You are no one. Level zero. Empty of mind and memory. Even your past has been stripped from your brain by the inscrutable System. A long, difficult road lies between you and remembering any part of who you are. A road punctuated with one death after another. You are too puny to survive by might alone. Information is the single resource that might keep you alive, but the brainless "digis" have none of it. Only those with experience can give you what you need, but most care nothing about you or your plight. In fact, some make it their mission to kill you. So die you will, again and again, your life counter clicking lower and lower. Even the creators do not know what happens when your counter reaches zero, but many are sure that your last life here is just that. No more respawns. You are not the first player in the world of S.T.Y.X., and you will not be the last. You can only hope luck will be on your side. The luckiest players are those who find a vulnerability in the System. Those they call cheaters. Perhaps cheating is the only way to win. Enjoy your game

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Planet Kill: A Space LitRPG by Sebastian Wilde (228 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A planet where all is televised, where loot acquisition is determined by levels, and where viewers can bid on your next move. Want to ascend to live among the elites on paradise planet? Accept insane bids, build your harem, and prove you have what it takes. Letha was taught by the best, and now she's risen up to be close to ascent. If she plays her cards right, she can escape this crazy place to live a life of luxury on one of the paradise planets. She has her generals and a small army to help achieve her dreams. But when her enemies team up and friends betray her, she'll have to think outside the box if she hopes to one day live among the elites. If that's all it was, maybe it wouldn't matter, but for her it's so much more. For her, its a mission of justice. And then Pierce comes along. A special agent with his own agenda, he might be the key to Letha's success... if she can get him to play along. WARNING: This book contains blood and adult content, poly harems and reverse harems, and very adult situations (to the extreme). You might cringe, you will laugh, and hell, you might even cry. We refuse to apologize for any of it.

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So Much More: A Throwback RomCom (Throwback RomComs Book 2) by Dana Wilkerson (Dana Wilkerson, LLC) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

(Note: This book is a sweet, low-heat, closed-door romcom.) I knew I shouldn't have done it. Last month, after I schemed to get my best friend together with her boyfriend, I ended up cuddled on the couch with his brother -- platonically, if platonic cuddling is even a thing. (I can attest that it's not. Well, at least it doesn't feel like it.) Not only that, but I agreed to keep doing it and to keep it a secret from everyone. At the time, I had no doubts it was a mistake. He and his girlfriend had broken up only days before, and I'd wanted him for a long time. But I did it anyway. Now here we are five weeks later. My head is on his lap, his fingers are sliding through my hair, and it's all I can do to keep myself from pulling his lips down to mine. I don't, because I know he doesn't want that. How do I know? He told me so when we started this. Plus, if he changed his mind, he'd let me know. The man is not one to hold back. But then again, neither am I. I'm known for speaking my mind, but in this case I'm not. I'm scared that if I try to take this to another level, he'll shoot me down. And then where will we be? My best friend is probably going to marry his brother. And we work together. It's an impossible situation. I need to end this, but I can't make myself do it. Somebody help me! So Much More is a Throwback RomCom set in the late 1980s. It reads like a contemporary romance with all the tropes, closed-door chemistry, and banter, but the relationship evolves without the use of cell phones or the Internet. Dating was a whole different game in the 80s!

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History-Mémếs Collection for 2024 : Funny Fresh Lookbook The Most Explosive Version by Thompson Kevin Price verified 7 hours ago

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MÉMÉS: Facts, Cool Lists, Stories and Loads More!: (Funny Joke Books) by Lloyd Phillips (27 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

MÉMÉS: Facts, Cool Lists, Stories and Loads More! Welcome to this awesome collection of memes, jokes, cool lists, stories, joke, facts and LOADS MORE!! Every page is just as cool as the last... This book is great for a pick-me-up at any time of the day! If you like this book then also check out my others by clicking on LLOYD PHILLIPS at the top of the listing! Enjoy!

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Twilight Zone Reflections: An Introduction to the Philosophical Imagination by Saul Traiger (Lever Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

Twilight Zone Reflections is the first book of its kind to explore the entirety of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) as a series. It acts as both an introduction to the field of philosophy and as a complete guide to the philosophical issues illustrated throughout the original 1959-64 television series. Author Saul Traiger explores each of the 156 episodes, investigating the show's themes in metaphysics, epistemology, moral and political philosophy, and other topics in a way that is accessible to both seasoned philosophers and those outside academia. Each short chapter dives into a single episode and concludes with helpful cross-references to other episodes that explore similar philosophical problems and subjects. For example, a reader may be interested in questions about the nature of the mind and whether machines can think. By referencing this book, they could easily discover the thematic connections between episodes like "I Sing the Body Electric" or "The Lateness of the Hour," and learn how both episodes introduce the viewer to possible worlds that challenge us to consider whether our idea of the mind, and even our very personhood, extends beyond the human to robots and other artificial intelligences. Each chapter introduces fundamental philosophical questions such as these through the lens of The Twilight Zone and inspires additional exploration. Further readings are suggested for all episodes, making this volume indispensable to academics, students, and fans of the show. Each chapter is short and accessible, ensuring that this book is the perfect resource to accompany a complete series re-watch. The Twilight Zone considered questions that strike at the heart of philosophical inquiry, such as the nature of self, the existence of god, the possibility of an afterlife, the relationship between knowledge and mental illness, the nature of possibility, even the nature of imagination itself, and so much more. Traiger argues that each episode can serve as an entry ...

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Work Wife Balance (Kate King Series Book 1) by Jo Edwards (700 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

'This is well-written, very funny and I raced through it, occasionally squealing in horror at the antics of Kate's colleagues. It's also a joy to read about a strong woman with a big job and fiery opinions, a nice antidote to the sugary sweet sort of chick lit.' DAILY MAIL Kate King is furiously flailing to keep afloat. As her team bicker, finger-point and cheat their way through rumours of sackings and site closures, her ill-tempered husband is becoming increasingly embittered and secretive. Kate knows she must address his petulant question: "Surely there's more to life than this?" but all her energies are required to dodge the corporate bullets constantly fired in her direction. Under pressure from an attractive, younger colleague, Kate is also concerned by her sudden invisibility to the opposite sex and the alarming appearance of back fat. Disturbingly, beige knitwear has started to call to her from the shelves of M&S. Growing more and more suspicious of her husband's activities, pressure builds on Kate both at work and at home until her turbulent year reaches its climactic end. Can she continue to balance precariously between work and marriage, or is one end of the scales going to hit the ground with a resounding thud?

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Puerto Paz by Jefferey J. Reese (Puerto Paz Entertainment) (16 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

We live in an increasingly polarizing landscape of political extremism. Liberal versus Conservative. Freedom versus order. What if that divide caused the United States to split into two countries and four extremist cultures? Marcus Coleman lives in a world where, decades earlier, exactly that happened. The black high school football and track star and his white best friend run away from their home in one extremist culture, and travel through three other extremist cultures, before finally finding the balanced moderation of Puerto Paz. Like a pair of nomadic Goldilocks, they embark on a journey of self-discovery, entering a strange new world full of drastically differing political ideologies and struggling to find a culture that feels like the right fit. Although raised in a culture that demands strict loyalty, their travels lead them to discover differences between themselves that test the limits of their friendship.

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Surveillance Cinema (Postmillennial Pop Book 2) by Catherine Zimmer (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only a fraction of the surveillance narratives that have become commonplace in recent cinema. Catherine Zimmer examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of surveillance. Drawing on the growing field of surveillance studies and the politics of contemporary monitoring practices, she demonstrates that screen narrative has served to organize political, racial, affective, and even material formations around and through surveillance. She considers how popular culture forms are intertwined with the current political landscape in which the imagery of anxiety, suspicion, war, and torture has become part of daily life. From Enemy of the State and The Bourne Series to Saw, Caché and Zero Dark Thirty, Surveillance Cinema explores in detail the narrative tropes and stylistic practices that characterize contemporary films and television series about surveillance.

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Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture by Sarah Projansky (4 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Looking at popular culture from 1980 to the present, feminism appears to be "over": that is, according to popular critics we are in an era of "postfeminism" in which feminism has supposedly already achieved equality for women. Not so, says Sarah Projansky. In Watching Rape, Projansky undermines this complacent view in her fascinating and thorough analysis of depictions of rape in U.S. film, television, and independent video. Through a cultural studies analysis of such films as Thelma and Louise, Daughters of the Dust, and She's Gotta Have It, and television shows like ER, Ally McBeal, Beverly Hills 90210, and various made-for-tv movies, Projansky challenges us to see popular culture as a part of our everyday lives and practices, and to view that culture critically. How have media defined rape and feminism differently over time? How do popular narratives about rape also communicate ideas about gender, race, class, nationality, and sexuality? And, what is the future of feminist politics, theory, and criticism with regard to issues of sexual violence, postfeminism, and popular media? The first study to address the relationship between rape and postfeminism, and one of the most detailed and thorough analyses of rape in 25 years, Watching Rape is a crucial contribution to contemporary feminism.

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Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation (Feminist Media Histories Book 6) by Jennifer S. Clark (University of California Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this deeply archival work, Jennifer S. Clark explores the multiple ways in which women's labor in the American television industry of the 1970s furthered feminist ends. Carefully crafted around an impressive assemblage of interviews and primary sources (from television network memos to programming schedules, production notes to executive meeting agendas), Clark tells the story of how women organized in the workplace to form collectives, affect production labor, and develop reform-oriented policies and philosophies that reshaped television behind the screen. She urges us to consider how interventions, often at localized levels, can collectively shift the dynamics of a workplace and the cultural products created there.

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Xander Barns Series (Books 1-2-3) by Sarah Tork (6 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

ALWAYS WANTED (BOOK 1) If someone were to have told me a year ago, that by the end of this year I was going to break up with Ben my boyfriend of five years and leave my family home to move to a different city to start a new life, I'd have told them they were crazy. There was no way something like that could happen... ever! It did happen. Twenty two year old university drop out Marisa Gellys' relaxed lifestyle takes a turn for the worse when she arrives early at Kyle Matthews' annual Halloween bash to find her boyfriend making out with another girl. Heartbroken she sets off to a brand new city to get away from her family who think she's made the biggest mistake of her life by breaking up with Ben. For the first time in her life, Marisa's doing everything on her own and she loves it. A brand new city, a brand (sort of) new job, and a hunky, dreamy late night customer who shows her the kinds of things he likes to do. Welcome to the ride. This year will be nothing like last year. WANTED ALWAYS (BOOK 2) I never said I was perfect... but damn it, I really did it this time! I fell for his ways again! And the award for dumbest girl in the world goes to... ME! Again! Twenty two year old Marisa Gellys thought the weekend of her father's 50th birthday party was going to be quick and easy. She couldn't have been more wrong. All thanks to a certain blue-eyed gorgeous... menace, also known as Xander Barns. Her dad's birthday would have to take a back seat, because Xander Barns has his own plans for this weekend and whether Marisa wants to or not, she's about to become a huge part of it. Because Xander Barns always gets what he wants. CALLING FOREVER (BOOK 3) If someone were to have told me right after waking up and finding Xander's surprise last Saturday, that at the end of this crazy weekend I'd be accepting a position as his Personal Assistant, I'd have laughed and told them they were crazy. It did happen. Who's crazy now? ME! Marisa Gellys should have erased ...

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Servant of the Crown: An Epic Fantasy Novel (Heir to the Crown Book 1) by Paul J Bennett (Amazon Digital Services) (1,871 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

An old warrior, too stubborn to die. A royal heir, hidden since birth. Can they save a realm on the brink of war? Tragedy tears Gerald's world apart and only his unwavering loyalty saves him. After serving as a soldier for years, a single act of self-sacrifice thrusts his future into the world of politics. Cut off from all he knows, he becomes no more than a pawn to those in command. Banished with little more than the clothes on his back, he seeks a new purpose, for what is a warrior who has nothing left to fight for? A fateful meeting with another lost soul unmasks a shocking secret, compelling him to take up the mantle of guardian. Bandits, the Black Hand, and even the king, he battles them all for the future of the realm. Memories of the past, secrets that shape the future; his adventure is only the beginning. Servant of the Crown is the series starter in the epic Heir to the Crown medieval fantasy series. If you like realistic fight scenes, compelling characters, and a gripping story, then you will love Paul J Bennett's tale of a warrior who refuses to retreat. Pick up your copy of Servant of the Crown, and discover the realm of Merceria today! Books by Paul J Bennett Heir to the Crown Series: Battle at the River - Prequel Servant of the Crown Sword of the Crown Mercerian Tales: Stories of the Past Heart of the Crown Shadow of the Crown Mercerian Tales: The Call of Magic Fate of the Crown Burden of the Crown Mercerian Tales: The Making of a Man Defender of the Crown Fury of the Crown Mercerian Tales: Honour Thy Ancestors War of the Crown Triumph of the Crown Mercerian Tales: Into the Forge Guardian of the Crown The Frozen Flame Series: Awakening - Prequels Ashes Embers Flames Inferno Maelstrom Vortex Power Ascending Series: Tempered Steel - Prequel Temple Knight Warrior Knight Temple Captain Warrior Lord Temple Commander The Chronicles of Cyric: Into the Maelstrom - Prequel A Midwinter Murder The Beast of Brunhausen A Plague in Zeiderbruch What ...

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Ravensdale (That Scoundrel Émile Dubois) by Lucinda Elliot (155 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

When the disgraced earl turned highwayman Reynaud Ravensdale becomes fascinated by the hoydenish Isabella Murray, she agrees to elope with him, on the condition that he helps her to become a highwaywoman. Isabella's parents want to marry her off to Ravensdale's cousin, the next in line to the title, while she suspects that he knows more about the killing which led to Reynaud Ravensdale's disgrace than he cares to admit. Isabella plans to carry out a few Robin Hood type raids with Reynaud, and then to escape abroad. That is, if it proves hopeless to clear his name of the old murder charge first. Meanwhile, the forces of law and order are closing in... This hilarious spoof uses vivid characters and lively comedy to bring new life to a theme traditionally favoured by historical novelists - that of the wild young Earl, who, falsely accused of murder by the machinations of a conniving cousin and prejudged by his reputation, takes up life as an outlaw. 'Ravensdale' is written as a prequel to the author's first novel,'That Scoundrel Émile Dubois' . It follows the adventures of Émile Dubois' cousin, prior to the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, and can be read as an independent novel.

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New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various Price verified 6 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War (Cinema Cultures in Contact Book 4) by Masha Salazkina (University of California Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this capacious transnational film history, renowned scholar Masha Salazkina proposes a groundbreaking new framework for understanding the cinematic cultures of twentieth-century socialism. Taking as a point of departure the vast body of work screened at the Tashkent International Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, World Socialist Cinema maps the circulation of films between the Soviet Bloc and the countries of the Global South in the mid- to late twentieth century, illustrating the distribution networks, festival circuits, and informal channels that facilitated this international network of artistic and intellectual exchange. Building on decades of meticulous archival work, this long-anticipated film history unsettles familiar stories to provide an alternative to Eurocentric, national, and regional narratives, rooted outside of the capitalist West.

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Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance: A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere (Thinking Gender in Transnational Times) by Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz (Palgrave Macmillan) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Culture, Literature and History. Grant FFI2017-84555-C2-1-P (research Project "Bodies in Transit: Genders, Mobilities, Interdependencies") funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by "ERDF A way of making Europe."

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Transactions with the World: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood by Adam O’Brien (Berghahn Books) Price verified 6 hours ago

In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the "New Hollywood" films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly "grounded" cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.

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The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age (SUNY series in Latin American Cinema) by Mónica García Blizzard (SUNY Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade -- the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity -- during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting a broad decolonial perspective while remaining grounded in the history of local racial categories, Mónica García Blizzard argues that this trope works to reconcile two divergent discourses about race in postrevolutionary Mexico: the government-sponsored celebration of Indigeneity and mestizaje (or the process of interracial and intercultural mixing), on the one hand, and the idealization of Whiteness, on the other. Close readings of twenty films and primary source material illustrate how Mexican cinema has mediated race, especially in relation to gender, in ways that project national specificity, but also reproduce racist tendencies with respect to beauty, desire, and protagonism that survive to this day. This sweeping survey illuminates how Golden Age films produced diverse, even contradictory messages about the place of Indigeneity in the national culture. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) -- a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries -- and the generous support of Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: https://www.openmonographs.org/. It can also be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7153

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Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human by Anat Pick (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed "posthuman cinema." It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.

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Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria by Noah Tsika (University of California Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Cinematic Independence traces the emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in Nigeria. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following independence, beginning a long history of interventions by Hollywood and corporate America. The 1980s and 1990s saw a shuttering of cinemas, which were almost entirely replaced by television and direct-to-video movies. However, after 1999, the exhibition sector was revitalized with the construction of multiplexes. Cinematic Independence is about the periods that straddle this disappearing act: the immediate decades bracketing independence in 1960, and the years after 1999. At stake is the Nigerian postcolony's role in global debates about the future of the movie theater. That it was eventually resurrected in the flashy form of the multiplex is not simply an achievement of commercial real estate, but also a testament to cinema's persistence -- its capacity to stave off annihilation or, in this case, come back from the dead.

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Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press by Eric Hoyt (University of California Press) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business -- a cutthroat landscape that set the stage for battle by ink. In 1930, Martin Quigley, publisher of Exhibitors Herald, conspired with Hollywood studios to eliminate all competing trade papers, yet this attempt and each one thereafter collapsed. Exploring the communities of exhibitors and creative workers that constituted key subscribers, Ink-Stained Hollywood tells the story of how a heterogeneous trade press triumphed by appealing to the foundational aspects of industry culture -- taste, vanity, partisanship, and exclusivity. In captivating detail, Eric Hoyt chronicles the histories of well-known trade papers (Variety, Motion Picture Herald) alongside important yet forgotten publications (Film Spectator, Film Mercury, and Camera!), and challenges the canon of film periodicals, offering new interpretative frameworks for understanding print journalism's relationship with the motion picture industry and its continued impact on creative industries today.

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The Circle of Sorcerers: A Mages of Bloodmyr Novel: Book #1 by Brian Kittrell (Late Nite Books) (1,183 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

When Laedron Telpist's sorcery training is interrupted by a knock on the door, what once seemed a proper profession must now be hidden. In a world where priests and mages vie for the limitless power of the elements and a new Grand Vicar has sworn death to all sorcerers, Laedron is tossed into a nightmare which would see his destruction at every turn. From the home shores in western Sorbia, through the Cael'Brilland heartlands, and even across the seas to the great city of Azura, Laedron finds himself embracing old friends, consorting with unlikely allies, and confronting potent enemies. As he struggles to train himself in spellcraft, Laedron must face that he lives in a time when the utterance of a simple spell could be the signature on his death warrant. # # # 81,000 words, 310 pages. Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

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Wizards: Character Backstory Examples (Tower of Gates Fantasy RPG Guide Book 1) by Paul Bellow (23 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

GPT-3 AI + Human = RPG Gold Read hundreds of wizard character backstories! This collection of wizard character backstories is a sample of output from the LitRPG Adventures Workshop which is powered by GPT-3 from OpenAI.

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Pandora's Box Classics) (143 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d'Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d'Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer Tess love and salvation, but he rejects her -- on their wedding night -- after learning of her past. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by the self-righteous rigidity of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination. -- Irving Howe What a commonplace genius he has; or a genius for the commonplace -- I don't know which. -- D. H. Lawrence The greatest tragic writer among English novelists. -- Virginia Woolf A singular beauty and charm. -- Henry James

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Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema by Christina Klein (9 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many "Golden Age cinemas" that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han's films took shape within a "free world" network of aesthetic and material ties created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War by the CIA, the forging of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from around the world. Klein combines nuanced readings of Han's sophisticated style with careful attention to key issues of modernity -- such as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and consumerism -- in the first monograph devoted to this major Korean director. A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

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Turning On by Mike B. Good (42 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A madman in the White House... A war in Vietnam... And on campus, the only marijuana was seeded Mexican. Someone had to do something. Why did it have to be Mike Good? No hero, he'd have been happy to graduate without getting killed marching for Peace. But when he learns of Uncle Dick's (AKA: President Nixon) diabolical plot to destroy Communism while getting rich quick, Mike is forced to take action. If not, it won't be just the commies who disappear. In this hilarious prequel to the Señor Bueno Travel Adventure series, Mike, avid surfer/mild-mannered revolutionary/wanna be rock star, turns on, tunes in, and plots against the government. Not to mention, runs afoul of professors, guidance counselors, theater critics, music critics, frat rats, porn directors, picky women, the Black Student Union, the National Guard, Governor Reagan, the CIA, and of course, President Nixon. Can an underdog armed only with a quick wit, a sarcastic tongue, and no common sense, find time for fun while saving the world? Not if the authorities have anything to say about it. If you like sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, irreverent humor, and laughing out loud, you'll love Turning On. Get it now!

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The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America (Cinema Cultures in Contact Book 1) by Giorgio Bertellini (University of California Press) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the post-World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini's work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority. This is the first volume in the new Cinema Cultures in Contact series, coedited by Giorgio Bertellini, Richard Abel, and Matthew Solomon. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) -- a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

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Between Boyfriends: Free Romantic Comedy (The Between Boyfriends Series Book 1) by Sarka-Jonae Miller (SJ Publishing) (933 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Enjoy this award-winning, feel-good summer beach read free! More than 850,000 reads. At first glance, twenty-one-year-old Jan Weston has it all: a gorgeous boyfriend, fun friends, and wealthy parents who take care of all those pesky credit card bills. Then her boyfriend dumps her, her friendships fall apart, and her parents cut her off. Suddenly without money, without a man, and without a plan, it's time for Jan to grow up. Determined to get her life back on track, Jan decides it's time to make it on her own. Can she find her way as a single lady in San Diego? Can she fix her friendships, her job prospects, and her hair? And can she keep her vow that she'll never date again, even after she meets a guy who just might be perfect for her? BETWEEN BOYFRIENDS is a sexy, hilarious story of living life, finding love, and growing up... but not necessarily in that order.

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Ren of Atikala (Kobolds Book 1) by David Adams (134 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

I am Ren of Atikala. Kobold. Sorcerer. Warrior. I am many things and I have many stories to tell. This one is about my home. Home. The word has a special resonance with us all. Great or humble, rich or poor, everyone cherishes their home and if deprived of it loses a piece of themselves. I remember looking back at Atikala, its ceiling collapsed in, the homes of fifty thousand kobolds crushed under unimaginable tonnes of rock and dirt. I remembering the feeling of horror and denial that immediately set in. I wanted to reject that this had happened to me, to scream to the ceiling until the rock receded, until fate changed its mind and restored everything to the way it was. I thought that life could not be so cruel as to take everything I'd known in an instant. Oh, how I now understand that life can be capricious indeed. This is story of how I came to the surface of Drathari and unwillingly traded a life for a life.

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War Poetry of the South by Various (11 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt Price verified 3 hours ago

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English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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The World's Greatest Books - Volume 07 - Fiction by Various (10 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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The World's Greatest Books - Volume 06 - Fiction by Various (15 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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The World's Greatest Books - Volume 01 - Fiction by Various (45 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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